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> IMO three things killed Perl, leaving it as an unpopular legacy husk [...] I don't really think it was any of these. There's much simpler mechanics at play h
by dozzie 9y ago
> IMO three things killed Perl, leaving it as an unpopular legacy husk [...]
I don't really think it was any of these. There's much simpler mechanics at
play here: Perl's competition (Python and Ruby) has about the same
expressiveness, but is much easier to learn, so for a long time very few
people have chosen Perl to learn. There was simply not enough young blood to
replace old timers that were retiring, dying, or migrating to other languages.
- yellowapple 9y agoI find that interesting, since of those three, Perl was the first language that really "clicked" for me (Ruby was almost that language, but it didn't start clicking until after I had learned Perl; Python still ain't really clicking, though it's gotten a bit better lately).